"Find their Level". African American Roots Tourism in Sierra Leone and Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3130262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Benton (0000-0001-9523-5985, Harvard University Press, corresponding author), Kwame Zulu Shabazz (Harvard University Press) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 193-194 |
| Pages | 477-511 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/etudesafricaines.18791 |
| OpenAlex | W1545580463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 18 |
In many "developing" and post-conflict African nations, cultural tourism has been touted as a vital source of foreign exchange revenue for jumpstarting national development. This trend has led to a scramble in Africa by African state officials seeking to "package" their nations in order to attract the patronage of Diasporan "returnees"— descendants of the Middle Passage who travel to Africa in search of cultural and historical "roots". This situation is further complicated by the fact that the planning and execution of national "packaging" frequently bypasses the ordinary citizen. Thus the official agenda of these nation states is sometimes at odds with the aspirations of local citizens and pan-African sojourners. Moreover, this trend has contributed to considerable conceptual slippage and, consequently, vociferous debates over the meaning of and criteria for asserting Africanness. In other instances, these conjunctures have transformed and enhanced received notions of African identity. An ethnographic comparison of a developing nation (Ghana) and a post-conflict nation (Sierra Leone) can both deepen and complicate our understandings of this emerging pan-African phenomenon and its attendant possibilities and limitations. We consider how these complimentary and conflicting interests, beliefs, and practices converge to shape novel modes of pilgrimage, nationhood, transnational dialogue, and globalization
Development economics · Economic growth · Ethnology · Geography · Globalization · Pilgrimage · Political economy · Political science · Sierra leone · Sociology · State (computer science · Tourism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law
Roots tourism
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Roots tourism experiences, identity construction, social equity and social justice
The roots tourism experience of diaspora Africans
Heritage’ and ‘cultural practice’ in a globalized disaster
This na true story of our history”
What is Africa to me’ now
Black American women's roots travel
Commemoration and commodification
A Pragmatic Tradition
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition
Beyond the Rivers of Africa
Genetic Ancestry Tracing and the African Identity
Ghana at Fifty
Edward Blyden and the Concept of African Personality
Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade
Africans in the Diaspora
The Time of Slavery
Africanism
Rites of Passage, Routes of Redemption
Ghana at Fifty
Toward a Pan-African Identity
No Nubian Knots or Nappy Locks
The Maasai and the Lion King
Tourists as Pilgrims
Tourism in Ghana
The English Professors of Brazil
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |